THE CHINA MAIL NOVEMBER 17,
DUCHESS
OF
KENT'S
COUSIN KILLED IN CRASH Six Members Of Ducal Family Die In Air Disaster
GRAND DUKE AND-JAPANESE
WIFE BURNED
TO DEATH
Ostend, To-day.
MANDATED ISLANDS
Genera, To-day-
The Mandates Commission yes terday considered the report the Japanese vernment on the administration of the
date.
The accredit of the mandator
PRINCE von Hesse and his son and three daugh- the Pacific under
ters were among the eight passengers and three crew killed when a Belgian passenger plane questioned on from Frankfort to London crashed into a fac- tory chimney in thick fog near Ostend aero- drome yesterday.
il.
The plane should have called at Brussels but on ac- count of fog went direct to Ostend. There were no British casualties-Reuter.
matters, but no questions on tical subjects, fortifica vigation were sked
PETROLEUM CONTROL IN
The Grand Ducal House of Hesse suffered a terri NEW ZEALAND
ble loss yesterday when six of its members, in- cluding the Grand Duke Georges and, his wife, Cecilie, cousin of the Duchess of Kent, were burned to death in the appalling air disaster,
The plane crashed into a chim- ney while trying to make an in-
termediary landing at the Small MESSAGE TO
landing field at Steene, near Ostend.
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY
CHINA FROM CATALONIA
Wellington (N.Z.), To-day. A Petroleum Bill was intro- duced in the New Zealand Par-
liament yesterday.
Under the Bill,
All existing natural supplies petroleum will be invested in Crown ownership,
Prospecting and mining will be under license, and
Royalties of not less than 5 per cent. will be given to Government
All petroleum must be refined and sold in New Zealand until require The third congress of the ments of the internal market have fell to earth as a mass of fiercely Catalonian General Union of been met.
At the moment of impact, fame burst forth from the engine and enveloped the entire craft which
Barcelona, To-day.
CHINESE GOLD RESERVES NOW IN LONDON
London, To-day.
Important gold reserves belong- Chinese Government
the
were shipped to London outbreak of hostilities with Japan
says the Daily Heraldy
The paper adds that three su shipments have now London, and more are expecte follow shortly
Chinese circles in London affirm that a certain amount of this gold will be re-shipped to the United States, where it will remain until the Far Eastern conflict is settled.
Trans-Ocean.
HERR HITLER'S HOUSEKEEPER PASSES
Munich, To-day.
Herr Hitler yesterday attended the funeral of Frau Ella Schindler, who for many years had been in charge of the Fuehrer's household at Obersalzberg.
Frau Schindler, who was a mem
Ming wreckage, from which the Workers, representing 560,000 In time of war the Government is ber of the Nazi Part
unfortunate occupants had not the workers, yesterday voted a mes- empowered to seize all petrol and short illness at a
slightest chance of escape..
Two children of the Grand Duke, Prince Ludwig Ernst and Prince Alexander Georges, were among the dead, as well as the Grand Duke's brother, Prince Ludwig von Hesse, and the Grand Duchess Eleonore, widow of the Grand Duke, whose death occurred only recently.
Prince Ludwig was attached to the German Embassy in London.
BELGIAN PLANE
All eleven occupants of the ill- fated plane, which belonged to Belgian Airways, lost their lives.
The others lost are believed to have been Baron von Eisennach
sage to the Chinese people.
The message reads:
The workers of the U.G.T of Catalonia dedicate a brother- ly salute to their Chinese bro thers who, equally with us here, struggle so fiercely against the invasion of Japanese Fascism to free their people from the oppression of the capitalist world.
"Long live China! Death to Fascism!" Reuter.
MR. EDEN GOES BACK TO BED
London, To-day.
The Foreign Minister, Mr. An-
and Captain Martins, the well-thony Eden, has not yet recovered known German pilot and a gliding from his cold. pioneer.
chambermaid travelling with the Hesse party is also among the dead.
FOG CONDITIONS
pilot, owing to the fog cided not to stop at Brussels
straight through to London
gently he found the fog becoming too perilous Tand at Steene.
of the pilot had
After his conversation with Lord Halifax yesterday morning, he had to return to bed and could not be present at the reception to King Leopold Trans-Ocean.
FRAU GIPPERICH RETURNING
Among passengers arriv
works Benter
Trans-Ocean.
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